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Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey’s most recent book is a collection of his papers on Tolkien, Roots and Branches; an anthology, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous, has just won the Mythopoeic Society’s Scholarship Award for 2008.

Selected bibliography

  • Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien (2007)
  • The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous (2005)
  • J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century (2000)
  • The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (editor) (1994)
  • The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (editor) (1992)
  • The Road to Middle-Earth (1982)
  • Beowulf (1978)
  • Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English (1976)
  • Old English Verse (1972)

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